Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality."
Salvador Dalí
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"In every person lies a monster waiting to be discovered."
Salvador Dalí
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"To understand Dalí is to understand the twentieth century."
Salvador Dalí
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"The greatest revolutions are silent ones happening in the mind."
Salvador Dalí
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"Isn't it nice that different cities have different things?"
Andy Warhol
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"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."
Andy Warhol
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"Isn't everything a machine? Isn't life a machine?"
Andy Warhol
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"Philosophy teaches us to question our assumptions."
Yair Lapid
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"Philosophy helps us understand our place in the universe."
Yair Lapid
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"It is the mind that creates the world around us."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"What we think, we become."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"I am awake in a world I do not understand."
Frida Kahlo
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"I do not believe in death, neither as a concept nor as a reality. It seems to me a poor form of imagination."
Frida Kahlo
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"Everything connects to everything."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"I often pace the streets without knowing where I am going, as if impelled by an invisible force."
Vincent van Gogh
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"Philosophy is the art of asking the right questions."
Vincent van Gogh
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"A nation that forgets its history is doomed to repeat it with more enthusiasm."
Yair Lapid
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"The paradox of modern life: we have more choices but less freedom."
Yair Lapid
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"We are shaped by our choices, not our circumstances."
Yair Lapid
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"We are all broken in different ways; that is what makes us human."
Yair Lapid
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"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize, embellish, and illuminate them."
Salvador Dalí
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"Errors are almost always sacred. Never attempt to correct them."
Salvador Dalí
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"Everything we love is the seed of all we hate."
Salvador Dalí
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"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
Salvador Dalí
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"The hypocrite is the inevitable product of all morals, all ethics."
Salvador Dalí
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"There is no flesh, there is only shadow."
Salvador Dalí
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
Salvador Dalí
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"I like boring things."
Andy Warhol
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"The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away."
Andy Warhol
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"To understand the divine, study nature; to understand nature, study art."
Michelangelo Buonarroti